IGNASI CAMBRA
PIANIST
Ignasi Cambra is widely recognized as one of Spain’s leading pianists of his generation. A student and frequent collaborator of Maria João Pires, he has earned high praise from conductor Valery Gergiev, who described him as "someone who can speak to me through the piano."
His international career includes performances at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonie in Paris, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the Ravinia Festival, and the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras including the Barcelona, Miami, Vancouver, and Mariinsky symphonies, under the baton of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Tsung Yeh, Kazushi Ono, Eduardo Marturet, Josep Pons, and Salvador Brotons.
In Spain, Cambra has appeared at major concert halls such as the Palau de la Música Catalana, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and L’Auditori in Barcelona; Auditorio Nacional de Música and Fundación Juan March in Madrid; and Auditorio de Zaragoza, among many others. He was an artist-in-residence at La Pedrera and has performed at prominent festivals including Peralada, Schubertiada Vilabertran, and Quincena Musical in San Sebastián and the Festival Internacional de Música de Santander.
He also enjoys performing music by living composers such as Salvador Brotons and Ferran Cruixent whose “Digital Studies” he premiered at the Palau de la Música Catalana in 2024.
Cambra studied under Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio at the Juilliard School in New York, and holds degrees from Indiana University and the Royal Academy of Music in London. Other significant influences on his artistic development include Edward Auer, Menahem Pressler, Alexander Toradze, and Rustem Hayroudinoff.
In 2023, he released his second album, "Spaces" (Sony Classical), featuring works by Schubert and Chopin.
Additionally, he completed an Executive MBA at IESE Business School, and maintains an active studio practice as a recording engineer and producer, including projects with Maria João Pires among others.
Ignasi Cambra
F. Schubert Klavierstücke n.1 D.949 / Ignasi Cambra
F. Schubert "Lebensstürme" D. 947 / Maria João Pires & Ignasi Cambra
F. Chopin - Nocturne in B Major Op. 9 No. 3 | Ignasi Cambra
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... The performances proved to be sensitive, clear, full of precision and beauty: an integral and often disarming pianism...
... The performance displayed sense and feeling, but without sentimentality, revealing itself wistful and hesitant, yet also exhortative, tormented and vehement, when the moment required...
... This pianist’s sense of silence enters a very personal realm; there, harmonics and reflection come together...
... The result was an eloquent phrasing, full of tensions and nuances, and a great expressive power without falling into trivial play with dynamics, everything at the service of the music...
... Pires (from the piano I part) and Cambra, plausibly in tune with one another, delivered the Adagio with expressive lyricism and appropriate sadness, and the Allegro with lightness and elegance (without repeating its second section), before returning to the opening movement with even greater delicacy...
... The atmosphere created in the first movement, shifting yet deeply dramatic, full of inflections of tempo and nuance, is echoed in a virtuosic finale...
